How Democracy Works Now: Twelve Stories (2010)

The documentary contains multiple, in-depth portraits that are weaved together to illustrate the full-blown social movement. It offers a window into the process of social change in a democracy, into the roots of immigration’s place in our culture and national identity and into the ability of the machinery of political life in the United States to address fundamental issues. Camerini and Robertson gained unprecedented access on the Capital Hill. From US senators and congressmen and their very private staffs, to high ranking union leaders, lobbyists and grass-roots crusaders on both sides of the issue, they taped private deliberations and the most intimate of strategy sessions. The highly unusual combination of access and expansive time frame, in conjunction with the intimacy with so many key figures who appear on screen, make our project the most in-depth backstage recording of a social process ever attempted.